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First Edition of Frederick Buechner's Now & Then; Signed by Him
BUECHNER, Frederick.
Now & Then.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.
First edition of the author's second memoir. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Frederick Buechner on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Catherine Flanders.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 58012
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First Edition of Now it Can be Told The Story of the Manhattan Project; Signed by Leslie Groves and by Tom Ferebee, the bombardier of the Enola Gay
GROVES, Leslie R. [Tom Ferebee].
Now it Can be Told The Story of the Manhattan Project.
New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1962.
First edition of this work by the director of the Manhattan Project. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title page, Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project and by Tom Ferebee, the bombardier of the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some chips. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 146227
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"When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever": First Edition of A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six
MILNE, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard.
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1927.
First edition of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt decorations to the spine and front panel, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with decorations by Ernest Shepard. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Gift inscription to the front free endpaper.
Price: $700.00 Item Number: 143951
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"When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever": A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
MILNE, A. A. Decorations by Ernest Shepard.
Now We Are Six.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1960.
Finely bound example of the third book in Milne’s beloved Pooh series. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, decorations by Ernest Shepard. In near fine condition.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 129436
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First Edition of George F. Kennan's Nuclear Delusion; Inscribed by Him to His Sister
KENNAN, George F.
Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
First edition of this Kennan work, which reviews the complex issues that must be addressed if the United States is to make rational, prudent decisions about future nuclear weapons systems. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to is sister Constance Lathrop Kennan on the front free endpaper, "For Con with love, George, 'The Farm' Oct. 16, 1982." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Anthony.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 135232
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Economist Richard Thaler
THALER, Richard H. and Cass R. Sunstein.
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
First edition, early printing of this revelatory look at how we make decisions. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, "Nudge for good! Richard Thaler." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 144495
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"How Brave are you, little Annemarie?": First Edition 25th Anniversary Edition of Lois Lowry's Number the Stars; Signed by Her
LOWRY, Lois.
Number The Stars.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
First 25th Anniversary edition of Lowry's first Newbery Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page, "With best wishes Lois Lowry." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sheila Smallwood. With an introduction by the author.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 142577
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Rare complete set of Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell'Avvocato Carlo Goldoni
GOLDONI, Carlo.
Nuovo Teatro Comico Dell’Avvocato Carlo Goldoni Poeta Di S. A. R. Il Serenissimo Infante di Spagna Don Filippo Duca Di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla, ec. [New Comic Theater of the Lawyer Carlo Goldoni].
Venezi: Francesco Pitteri, 1753-1755.
Rare complete set of Pitteri's 1757 printing of Goldoni's works of comic theater. Octavo, ten volumes bound in full vellum with gilt tooling to the spine, engraved frontispiece portrait of Goldoni by Pitteri after Piazetta. In good condition. Armorial bookplates. A rare complete set of this scarce printing published during the author's lifetime.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 129035
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"Give a chunk to a monkey, give a chunk to a fighter": Later printing of Michael Rosen's Nuts About Nuts; Signed and dated by him
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten.
Nuts About Nuts.
London: Diamond Books, 1999.
Early printing of British children's author Michael Rosen's illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Signed and dated by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, "Michael Rosen Aug 15 2004." In near fine condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 88124
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"Give a chunk to a monkey, give a chunk to a fighter": Later printing of Michael Rosen's Nuts About Nuts; Signed and dated by him
ROSEN, Michael. Illustrated by Sami Sweeten. .
Nuts About Nuts.
London: Diamond Books, 1999.
Early printing of British children's author Michael Rosen's illustrated book of poetry about nuts. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by Michael Rosen on the verso of the front panel, "Hello Eileen, Michael Rosen was here." In near fine condition.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 88125
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First Edition of Jose Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo; Signed by Him
SARAMAGO, Jose.
O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. [The Gospel According To Jesus Christ].
Lisboa: Caminho, 1991.
First Portuguese edition and true first of the Nobel Prize-winning author's classic work. Octavo, original wrappers as issued. Signed by Jose Saramago on the title page. In near fine condition, with the original publisher's bookmark laid in.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 114809
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First edition of George Catlin's O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony: and other Customs of the Mandans; in the rare original green cloth
CATLIN, George.
O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony: and other Customs of the Mandans.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co, 1867.
First edition of Catlin's important work on the Mandan people and their rituals, one of the only records of the Mandan tribe which was almost entirely exterminated in the smallpox epidemic of 1837. Octavo, original publisher's green beveled cloth with gilt titles and double gilt ruling to the front panel, illustrated with thirteen tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates after Catlin by Simonau & Toovely, half-title present, coated green endleaves, all edges gilt. From the library of American businessman and amateur archaeologist William H. Claflin Jr. with his pictorial bookplate to the pastedown. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable, especially in this…
Price: $12,000.00 Item Number: 119463
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Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth; Inscribed by Richard Rorty
RORTY, Richard.
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Later printing of these papers by the famed philosopher. Octavo, original wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Richard Rorty on the title page. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144896